Example sentences of "when i [was/were] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " When I was dealing with the men personally I generally got them to see matters from my point of view , but unfortunately I could not stay in any one port for any length of time ; my subordinates did not have the same control over men as I did " . |
| 2 | When I was injured in the first match with Portsmouth at Fratton Park I did n't expect to be playing again in a fortnight . |
| 3 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 4 | I did n't see it but when I was presented with the job advert from a local newspaper the words leapt out at me : ‘ Lecturer : Special needs ’ in the college in the borough where I used to teach before becoming a peripatetic home teacher for pre-school children . |
| 5 | I was lingering near the assembled bottles , wondering who on earth could have brought the Bourgueil , when I was joined by the man I had seen stepping out of the BMW . |
| 6 | I actually first realised this at the second year , that when I was looking for the , the previous year , I noticed that in July the business went and I thought , because everybody 's gone on holiday . |
| 7 | As you know it , this is the last I 'm sure everyone 's aware it 's the last item on your agenda when I was looking at the agenda this item was before the fox hunting motion I thought well it 'd be nice to have a debate before the fox hunting motion because we would have er a full house of people who I 'm sure would be very interested to hear the discussion on V A T. As matter of fact I 'm sure they would w w would welcome the opportunity to have a de , a discussion , but it seems they have gone and I got , I got it wrong Chairman when you by taking the the the fox hunting motion it should really have , have held on till this time in the evening . |
| 8 | When I was looking through the catalogues for what to buy I was very impressed with some of the newer books . |
| 9 | Cos one of the things that I said , you know , just when I was looking through the last five or six months is that it did seem er , to be inconsistent in terms of certain areas like the first floor , there 's an awful lot of reporting going on but , there was very little from the other , from the other areas . |
| 10 | Once when I was looking out the back of the palace and shots around the back and a shell hit the palace , so it came in my eyes and it hit |
| 11 | I did n't tell him how she had caught hold of my hair again when I was reaching under the bed . |
| 12 | Anyway , in what seems the distant past of the late Seventies , when I was reporting from The Gnoll , they were not much good , not many players from Neath won caps and , once the new Welsh Challenge Cup had been won in 1972 , an utterly barren decade ensued . |
| 13 | I was working at a hospital in the out-patients ' department recently and when I was leaving at the end of my shift one day , I saw the following message pinned on the notice board , obviously from an extremely irate patient : ‘ Time is a great healer . |
| 14 | I was treated abominably by the police when I was assaulted in the home |
| 15 | So , imagine my relief when I was called to the front porch , and I was greeted by a cheery ‘ American Red Cross reporting for duty Ma'am . |
| 16 | I am enclosing a photograph ( opposite ) of the aircraft , that I took when I was serving with the Communication Flight based at RAF Lydda , Palestine , ( now Ben Gurion Airport , Israel ) during the latter months of 1942 . |
| 17 | ( I met the great sculptor once , you know , when I was hiding from the Doge of Venice 's assassins . |
| 18 | Cassock and surplice , a black cassock and white surplice once I told you that my grandmother was once living with us , she used to delight in washing my surplice and ironing it up except me when I was singing in the choir , I did n't take a , the treble solos , that was after the choir used to sister of ours at least oh twenty men , and as many lads and youths the as I say Johnny was in the choir there was er the two brothers and there was Dick was a incense boy and his father was a manager to go in the , he used to have a red cassock and surplice , but he used to Dick 's dad was the incense swinger and they used to go about swinging incense and that , I do n't suppose they do that at all now , but er your first job as a choirboy was to pump the organ it , have you ever been in the church ? |
| 19 | When I was shown into the room I despaired . |
| 20 | ‘ You saved my life when I was dying on the hillside . ’ |
| 21 | During his three years at University College , London , he got work each Christmas with the post office in his home town of Woking : ‘ When I was coming to the end of my university period I sat a civil service examination with possible jobs at the end which included income tax , the secret service and the post office which involved travelling as a management trainee . |
| 22 | When I was ushered into the presence , I did stand on the mat . |
| 23 | Erm we had gone down to , to , to Bognor to the christening of her , our nephew and she was n't too , th that was in November , it was sort of middle of November , and something was going wrong there and so when I , when I was retiring on the twenty seventh of November she could n't come in and er |
| 24 | I have , I did have experience with cheques and credit cards , but that was when I was working at the chemist , but now we do n't take cheques . |
| 25 | I even met one in the walnut tree when I was working in the garden one night . |
| 26 | Well now that , that 's the thing we did appreciate , because er in those days no , no house had got its own bath it was a case of a tin bath on the hearth , but when I joined the club when I was working in the , when I was thirteen I , I left school cos me being having no father I was able to l leave school when I made me attendances , oh that 's something that might interest you I was thinking about . |
| 27 | You do n't wan na be ill cos when I was admitted to the san I nearly died , I tried everything to get out the san and she just would n't |
| 28 | " It never occurred to me till yesterday , Mr Feather , when I was sitting on the seat and she smiled at me . |
| 29 | er better support and better advice for schools , but I agree entirely with what says , it 's no good having the best advice in the world if we ca n't deliver the er , er , the , the recommendations and one of the things that er has been borne in , on me , when I was sitting on the panel looking at special educational needs that the early identification of the early intervention when there are difficulties which start to arise in schools can save you a lot of money later on and unless the schools have the resources to er , er to meet with the er recommendations which are being made on particular children , then we are asking for trouble there , so that I 'm very concerned about the fact that er , the like , like the early one which was er increase that er provision . |
| 30 | There was one occasion when I was sitting in the kitchen and I heard the front door close , and then footsteps in the hall . |